Developer wakes up to 6.5 hours of agent-completed work — calls it 2 weeks of his time
therealdanvega · x · 2026-10-01
Developer Dan Vega shared that he gave an agent a set of tasks with clear definitions of "done" before bed, and woke up to 6.5 hours of completed work — which he estimates would have taken him about two weeks. "What a time to be alive," he wrote.
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